It is certainly remarkably low by the country's past standards, the more so after a long economic expansion.

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When Mr Kasuri says the two countries have "come a long way over the past year or so" it is no exaggeration.

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Spitzer is relying on a strategy he has used so successfully in the recent past: Find a long-established but shady-sounding practice in an industry, expose it as a scandal, single out a villain and threaten criminal prosecution, flushing out the scapegoat and extracting a sizable settlement.

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